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Thursday, December 1, 2016

Tips for Equating BLM with the KKK

Thanks to Tomi
Lahren appearing on The Daily Show
last night, the comparison of the BLM movement to the KKK has resurfaced and is
gaining popularity.

…We see y’all.
We know what you’re doing.

This is not the
first time that organized groups of color have been equated with the KKK. Just
look at the original Black Panthers, La Raza, the NAACP, SNCC, and pretty much
any other group that fought for equality for people of color. It’s funny that
people think we’re so scary and have the power to pull off what the Ku Klux
Klan has done to this country. I want to help the people who wish to make this
claim legitimate. Here are some pointers on how to make the [minority
group]/KKK comparison sound more believable:

After saying, “BLM
is just like the KKK”, point out the many incidents when BLM rode in the night
and put burning B’s on white people’s front lawns because they moved into predominantly
black neighborhoods.

Give examples
of the times that the NAACP members joined police forces and arrested white
people for crimes as little as not nodding their heads to black people.

Show how La
Raza covertly and sometimes openly got elected to various parts of the justice
system so that they could prosecute and and punish white people in kangaroo
courts.

Provide
pictures of the members of SNCC leading raids on white people’s homes to
kidnap, the residents, castrate and torture them, and then gleefully burn them
alive or hang them while others take pictures, all because of false claims of
them robbing or raping an innocent black woman.

Tell me all the
times when the Black Panthers, in efforts to stem the voting rights of white
people, not only got elected to loncal municipalities to pass language and
grandfather clauses for voting, and when that didn’t work, started bombing
white churches, not caring if anyone was in the church or not.

Once you can do
any of these things, THEN your claim that BLM is the new KKK will be valid.

Actually, one
more thing: Name all the black people who helped the KKK start up in the first
place, and show me all the times that equality groups of color excluded white
people from their ranks. The fact is that nearly every group of color welcomed
white allies in their ranks, including the original Black Panthers. Groups of
color have been all inclusive regardless of their names, because they know what
it is like to be excluded. Even our fraternities and sororities have some white
people in them. None of them sang on a bus about how they’d sooner hang a white
guy than allow them into AFA.

Now, I’m well
aware that riots have erupted from some BLM protests. I recognize that
destruction of property is not a great way to get your point across. Leaders in
BLM explicitly and immediately disavow these people who dare incite violence in
their names. The movement is nonviolent. People sometimes are not. No one in
BLM chanted to kill cops. Those who did are not part of the movement. If you
are so disdainful of the violence that sparked after some protests (violence
that often started with people not associated with the marches), then where is
your disdain for people who riot when their teams win, or when their teams
lose, or when it’s Decorative Gourd Season, or when that a head coach of a
football team gets fired for covering up child rape? BLM are asking for respect,
and that is unreasonable, but sports teams, pumpkins and getting punished for
covering up child rape is just “releasing stress”?

Murderers of
cops are NOT part of the movement. They may have co-opted its name, much like
Susan G. Komen co-opted the Breast Cancer Awareness movement. The people who
killed cops and claimed they were exacting revenge in the name of BLM have also
been shown to have no actual ties to BLM. Anyone can claim that they are part
of something that they are not to commit crimes. If you really cared about the lives of cops, you’d be more
concerned that nearly three quarters of police officers were killed by white
men, not black people.

Some will say
that if I am decrying these people co-opting the cause, then I should afford
the same benefit of the doubt for Trump regarding his neo-nazi and KKK
endorsements. The difference is that the BLM movement IMMEDIATELY DECRIED the
actions of those who did fucked up things in their names. Trump first pretended
he didn’t know who David Duke was even though he did, was silent about their
endorsements throughout the campaign, and then FINALLY denounced them and
people’s actions, but then hired at LEAST two white supremacists to his
cabinet. Actions speak much louder than his words.

So once you can
point out the times that groups of color actively and successfully oppressed
the rights of white people, then you can call them “black supremacists” or “reverse
racists” or whatever inane neologisms you like, and I’ll be happy to agree.
Until then, just admit that you don’t like it when brown people talk.